Alumni artists Marion Abraham and Bliss Sandhu have taken out the top awards at the 2024 Henry Jones Art Prize.
Ms Abraham was awarded the Painting Prize for her oil-on-board piece Good Girls, while Mr Sandhu won the Mixed Media Prize for his digital photographic print 07:32.
Each artist received $20,000.
Ms Abraham’s work depicts a personal relationship between herself and her sister.
“It talks about what our values are as we grow older together as adults and how we’re fathoming our ancestry and our history in the family,” she said.
“And what that means to us now and how we’re living our lives at the moment.”
Mr Sandhu, a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University, said his work was inspired by his research exploring how people’s understanding of the world is shaped by media.
“It’s a moment of reflection for the viewer to introspect on their relationship with the information that they’re consuming,” he said.
Henry Jones Art Hotel curator Tina Zucco praised both works, describing Ms Abraham’s as “evocative and broody” and Mr Sandhu’s as “compelling and of-the-moment”.
“It was a very competitive field with 117 entries across the two categories, but Marion and Bliss were the exceptions,” Ms Zucco said.
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